So, on Earth, the North Star is our pole star and it has been extremely useful for people living here for millennia. This ...

One member of this stellar quartet — Sigma — provides the Southern Hemisphere’s best Pole Star. The actual pole resides a bit more than 1° from Sigma, so when using such a finder you need ...

Delta Draconis was found to be Ceres’ Pole Star, by the Dawn mission, but it’s not easy to distinguish in the sky. Mercury’s southern hemisphere does better.

The imaginary line that divides the northern and southern halves of the sky is called the celestial ... Ursa Minor, Cassiopeia, Cepheus and Drago. They circle around Polaris, the pole star, all night.

Visualizing this pole, it quickly becomes obvious that as the Northern pole is angled away from our star, the Southern pole must be angled towards it. That means winter solstice accounts for half ...

The European Space Agency has achieved yet another “first” for humankind by capturing the first photos of the Sun’s south pole. These images were captured by the agency’s Solar Orbiter ...

Well, the pole's magnetic field, simply put, is a mess at the moment. See, the sun's magnetic field flips roughly every 11 years, and it's about to flip this year if it hasn't yet.

This week, India became the first of all the nations in the current moon race to reach the coveted lunar south pole. India’s latest moon lander, the Chandrayaan-3, has successfully touched down ...